Sunday, December 5, 2010

Sunday, lazy sunday.



I've been pretty lazy today. But, that's okay sometimes. It did snow Friday night. We started work about 2:30 and shoveled until the banks closed. I stayed in town and we started again Saturday morning from about 4-7 for me. We had the 1st round done when I had to leave so I didn't feel too bad. I tell ya, I think I deserve the day off today. My shoulders hurt a lot yesterday and I got my behind kicked at TKD(literally) . I didn't go to bed until 9:30 but I was wiped out.
You know, I keep thinking about when I was little if we had big snow storms we stayed home for a couple of days because it took them that long to clean up all the roads. Now you are snowed in, maybe, overnight and the next day it's life as normal. And that's ok.

So,what did I do today? I finished the hat I was making, I finished my brother's Christmas present, made some paper ornaments for the windows and the tree, and made a tree out of a magazine. Saw that on Martha Stewart.

What didn't I do? I didn't make cookies, I didn't workout, wash clothes, clean anything, or take a shower. :P
But, tomorrow is a new day. I'm getting a massage and I will make cookies and I will workout. And maybe work on Christmas cards.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Day 2

Today I did a short workout because I will probably be shoveling snow this afternoon for work. :P
Jump rope: 6 min
Sparkpeople butt blaster video on YouTube: 6 min
Bodyrock: 100 side step-ups, 50 on each side
Left side: 2min 26.1 sec
Right side: 2min 42.1 sec
The bodyrock was supposed to be 300 on each side. I'm going to have to work my way up to that. I also did them on a shorter stool instead of a chair because I am rather short. If I don't shovel tonight I'll do some more exercises. Promise. :)

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Workin'out.

I get laid off every winter and I find it a challenge to stay active while I'm laid off. So, I think that this year I'm going to keep track of what I do on here. Because I have a few different resources for work-out and I don't know how to record them all together elsewhere. (Yes I could do paper, but I'm not going to.)
So today I jumped rope to warm up and then did my Sparkpeople workout (sparkpeople.com), and I just started following bodyrock.tv, so I did their workout too.
My spark workout was a full body workout. Crunches, lunges, squats etc. My personal dislikes are push-ups and anything to do with my triceps, 'cause they're hard. But I made myself do them and I did 30 push-ups and about 40 tricep dips. Which is a personal best. I'm hoping if I keep doing them all winter I won't lose my muscle mass from the summer.
The Bodyrock workout was 10 high knees and then drop to the floor and explode up for 1 rep and to do 60 reps for time. I used my ipod to track and recorded each set of 10 reps as a lap to see if I start losing momentum during the exercise.
Lap 1: 1min 30.7 sec
Lap 2: 1 min 28.9 sec
Lap 3: 1min 43.5 sec(I think I lost count on this lap and I may have done an extra rep)
Lap 4: 1min 29.9 sec
Lap 5: 1min 26.4 sec
Lap 6: 1min 34.5 sec
Total time: 9min 14.2 sec
I don't think I did too bad.
Any way, we will see if I can move very well tomorrow. I have a feeling my legs will hurt from the lunges. :P